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Cudi tickets sell quickly; overall reaction positive

By Amrita Mainthia Asst. Feature Editor

Doug Wexler sat patiently in front of his computer at 10:55 a.m. Tuesday, staring at Ticketmaster. He refreshed the Web page every 30 seconds, waiting for it to go live.

Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.

Wexler, a junior political science major, was one of many students who bought online presale tickets for this year’s Block Party, headlined by Kid Cudi. He had floor seats for last year’s show and knew he wanted those again.

“Block Party is the best concert of the year,” Wexler said. “When you’re sitting so close, it’s like you’re actually in the performance.”

Cudi, Nas and Damian Marley, and an unannounced opening act will perform in the Carrier Dome for Block Party on April 29 at 7 p.m.

Tickets, on sale through the Syracuse University Athletics website, cost $15 for students with a valid SU or State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry ID. Since announcing two of the Block Party acts, University Union President Andrew Beyda received positive reactions to the selections, which is reflected by the sales. More tickets were sold during the first hour of selling tickets than during the entire first week of sales for last year’s Block Party, which featured see block party page 6

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shijing wang | staff photographer eric schlosser signs copies of his book, “Fast Food Nation,” Tuesday in Hendricks Chapel. The investigative journalist was the first speaker of the spring semester in the University Lectures series.

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Journalist criticizes fast-food industry

By Maya Kosoff Contributing Writer

From Eric Schlosser’s point of view, the success of the industrial food system is dependent on people’s ignorance of how it truly operates.

Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of “Fast Food Nation,” spoke Tuesday to a nearly full house in Hendricks Chapel as the first speaker for the 2011 spring semester University Lectures series. Schlosser spent most

of his presentation discussing the truth behind America’s “fast-food mentality” and the environmental and social impacts the fast-food industry has made on America in the past 60 years.

“It’s no exaggeration to say that the food we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000,” Schlosser said.

Schlosser originally published “Fast Food Nation” in three parts in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1998, said Eileen Schell, director and

chair of the writing program at SU. The book, published in 2001, was on The New York Times’ bestseller list for two years and has been translated into 20 languages.

As an investigative journalist, Schlosser has investigated topics including the New York Police Department Bomb Squad, California migrant farm workers and marijuana growers. “Command and Control,” Schlosser’s next piece, deals with nuclear proliferasee schlosser page 4

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Final dean candidate to visit SU beginning Wednesday

By Kathleen Ronayne Managing Editor

Syracuse University officials have identified the deputy secretary of state for the United States as the fourth and final candidate in the search for the new dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Jim Steinberg will visit the campus on Wednesday and Thursday for

the on-campus phase of the interview process, said William Banks, chair of the search committee, in an e-mail.

Steinberg is the fourth and final dean candidate announced.

Steinberg began serving as the deputy secretary of state in January 2009. From January 2006 to 2009, he was the dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at

the University of Texas at Austin.

From 2001 to 2005, he served as the vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institute.

Steinberg could not be reached for comment.

During his two-day visit to the SU campus, Steinberg will meet with faculty, staff and students for a series of

meetings, luncheons and interviews.

In February, the three other dean candidates visited the campus for two-day stints.

The other three candidates are Anil Deolalikar, professor of economics and associate dean of social sciences at the University of California Riverside; Gail Dubrow, professor

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At last month’s University Senate meeting, a discussion began on the rising admissions rate over the past two years, prompting a wider university conversation.

Between fall 2008 and fall 2010, the admissions rate jumped from 52.5 percent to 59.7 percent, according to Syracuse University statistics provided by Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs. University officials attribute this increase to a rise in SU’s popularity and efforts to attract more students from a wider geographic range, specifically outside of the Northeast.

The admissions rate has fluctuated in the past decade. Comparing 2002’s 80.3 percent to today’s 60 percent shows a drop. But between that time, the percentages fell into the low 50s before rising again to 60.1 percent in fall 2009.

Both the number of applications and the number of students admitted have also increased in the past decade.

In 2001, 12,917 applied to SU, and 9,221 were admitted. In 2010, 22,921 applied, and 13,676 were admitted.

The average high school GPA and SAT scores for admitted students have remained about the same in the past few years, fluctuating at about 3.60 and between 1160 and 1170, respectively.

Admissions are expanding as the university looks to recruit more students from various geographic, ethnic, racial and socioeconomic areas, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management. Recently, the university has brought in more students from the American south and southwest, and the number of international students has also risen, Saleh said.

Saleh said he would like to see the university continue to reflect the socioeconomic, racial and ethnic diversity of the country.

From 2001 to 2010, the percentage of admitted students from the Northeast dropped by nearly 6 percent, from 77.5 see admissions page 6

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US may prosecute Gadhafi Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s administration may seek to prosecute Libyan leader Moammar al Gadhafi for the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, according to an article on msnbc.com published Tuesday.

All 259 passengers on board the plane died in the bombing, as well as 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland. Thirty-five of the victims were Syracuse University students traveling back to the United States from studying abroad in London and Florence. Libyan Abdelbaset alMegrahi was the only one convicted for the bombing.

Clinton’s response came during a budget hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs when U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-Onondaga Hill) asked what the United States is doing to investigate Gadhafi, according to the article. Clinton said former Gadhafi officials have made statements in the past week saying he was responsible for the bombing and that the United States would “move expeditiously,” according to the article.

On Feb. 23, Libya’s former justice minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil told the Stockholm-based tabloid Expressen that Gadhafi personally ordered the bombing, although he provided no proof to back up his accusation. Gadhafi has controlled Libya since a 1969 military overthrow and has never admitted to ordering the bombing but previously accepted Libya’s responsibility for the attack.

The former Libyan justice minister Abdel-Jalil was quoted over the weekend as saying the convicted bomber had blackmailed Gadhafi into granting his release from a Scottish prison by threatening to expose Gadhafi’s role in the bombing, according to the article.

The Sunday Times newspaper in the United Kingdom quoted AbdelJalil as saying al-Megrahi had threatened Gadhafi that he would “reveal everything” regarding the bombing if he wasn’t rescued from prison, according to the article.

Clinton said the case against Gadhafi was personally important to her as a former New York state senator, according to the article.

Clinton said she would contact FBI Director Robert Mueller and U.S. see gadhafi page 4

shijing wang | staff photographer Melissa Perez, Miriam perez and vanessa valentI, (Left to right) speak as panelists in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III on Tuesday. The three panelists discussed feminism and the use of the Internet today to change the women’s movement.

Panel discusses use of Internet to advance feminism

By Haley Behre Staff Writer

Although the feminism movement has overcome barriers through the years, the work of feminists is not done, said Miriam Perez, editor of Feministing.com.

“Feminism has changed the world we live in,” Perez said. “This success is why we need to ask the question again. The feminist project has changed, the identity has changed, and the agenda has changed. This needs to be addressed.”

Perez was one of three speakers Medusa Magazine brought in Tuesday night in the Joyce Hergenhan

Auditorium. Vanessa Valenti, cofounder and an editor at Feministing.com, and Melissa Perez, a junior at Syracuse University majoring in women’s and gender studies, were also on the panel.

Valenti spoke about blogging and the ways it has revolutionized the movement. The mission of Feministing.com is to create a space for feminists to think critically and celebrate feminist activism, Valenti said.

“Blogging can mobilize thousands by one take-action post,” Valenti said.

Feministing.com, which began in April 2004 to create a platform where people can comment and influence

young feminists, has had some success with mobilizing people through posts, Valenti said. Wal-Mart carried underwear in the junior department that said, “Who needs a credit card.”

A blogger posted about the outrage on Feministing.com with a link to the company. Soon after, the product was taken down, Valenti said.

The feminist project needs to move forward, Miriam said. Feminism has to address gender so people do not think it is restricting, she said.

“No one should be limited by their gender identity in regard to the ways they are treated,” Miriam said. “This is not a woman’s issue in that regard

because men can be limited, too.”

The bloggers find visiting colleges valuable because the readers are the driving sources of the site, Valenti said.

“People have told me that it is the first feminist community they have found,” Valenti said.

Samantha Lifson, editor in chief of Medusa Magazine, said she always wanted to bring Feministing.com to campus because it gives a voice to younger feminists. Melissa Perez, a junior at SU, was chosen to be the panelist member because she is a smart and knowledgeable activist on see feminism page 4

Whitman students offer assistance in completing tax return forms

By Nick Gallagher Warren Staff Writer

Those on campus in need of tax assistance had to look no further than Flaum Grand Hall on Friday.

The help came from students in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management who offered income tax assistance as part of the Beta Alpha Psi Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. BAP will offer its program this Friday as well.

BAP started its own version of VITA to resolve issues with the gov-

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Volunteers will help students file simple tax returns.

Where: Flaum Grand Hall in Whitman When: March 4, March 25 and April 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

How much: Free ernment VITA program that Syracuse University originally offered to students, said David Ben-Hayun,

a junior accounting and real estate major and the new program coordinator. In the government program, volunteers filed a student’s taxes for him or her, but the volunteer was at fault for mistakes made on the tax return, Ben-Hayun said. To remove responsibility from previous student volunteers, he said BAP established its own version of VITA. Now, instead of filing taxes for the student, volunteers of the program go through the forms with the student and print them out. It is the

student’s responsibility to review and send in the forms him or herself, Ben-Hayun said.

BAP opens the tax assistance program up to local Syracuse residents, but the service is mainly intended for and used by SU students, BenHayun said.

“We have some locals come in,” Ben-Hayun said. “But we are here to help students.”

Mitchell Franklin, an assistant professor of accounting in Whitman, see whitman page 6

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tion, Schell said.

In his lecture, Schlosser pointed to the recent controversy about unlabeled cloned animals used in the production of food, as well as the Blackwater-guarded Monsanto Seed Company, which produces genetically modified foods, as examples of what is wrong with today’s food industry.

McDonald’s, whose goal to have “thousands of identical restaurants where food would taste exactly the same everywhere,” has spurned the creation of chemical companies and huge “agribusiness” companies throughout the United States, he said.

The fast-food industry, Schlosser said, is not for people. The industry is the United States’ largest employer of minimum-wage workers and has been the biggest opponent of increases in minimum wage in the past 40 years, he said.

As a major force in an antiunion industry, McDonald’s will close down restaurants where unions form instead of attempting to reconcile with them, Schlosser said.

Schlosser, a conservative in regard to the food industry, said sustainable food practices must include labor policies that ensure living wages and a safe workplace to employees, regardless of where they are on the worker hierarchy. A typical family of four in Syracuse lives on three-fifths of the annual tuition for SU, he said.

“A third of the people who live in Syracuse live below the poverty line, and the proportion of people in Syracuse on food stamps is even higher,” he said. “And if you’re at

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“It’s no exaggeration to say that the food we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000.”

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Attorney Gen. Eric Holder about how to move forward with the investigation, according to the article. If evidence is found that Gadhafi ordered the attack, Clinton said it would be one of several counts brought against him in the International Criminal Court “if he is ever

captured alive for justice proceedings,” according to the article.

Al-Megrahi was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and told by doctors he had only three months to live. He is still alive, and controversy continues to surround his release.

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university here, by definition, you’re at the top of society.”

Schlosser cited food-borne illnesses, antibiotic resistant “superbugs” and obesity as a few of the health effects of the fast-food industry.

The centralization and industrialization of factory farms are ideal for taking dangerous pathogens and spreading them, he said.

The “perfect vector for spreading disease” is the modern hamburger, which typically has pieces of meat from thousands of cattle from up to five countries, he said.

The modern organic movement, which began in England about 60 years ago and filtered to the United States during the counterculture movement in the 1960s, is a necessary and possible solution to the crisis of the fast-food industry, Schlosser said. Schlosser told the audience the problem of the food industry in America is a series of easily solved problems.

“If you want to try to change things, you don’t have to be a saint,” Schlosser said. “You just have to become conscious. You can’t live in denial. If everybody is conscious, it’s amazing, absolutely amazing, the change that can happen.” mekosoff@ syr.edu

recent occurrences in the pan am bombing

Although the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing occurred in 1988, events surrounding the convicted bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, continue to be relevant.

• Al-Megrahi was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and told by doctors he had only three months to live. He is still alive today.

• U.S. senators began questioning in July whether BP officials pushed the British government to release al-Megrahi so they

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campus, Lifson said.

Melissa addresses her feminism in three ways. Feminist intervention is asserting oneself to say “no” when someone is excluding someone else based on an identity, she said. Feminist smackdown is blogging or putting one’s foot down

could obtain an offshore oil deal with Libya worth $900 million.

• The medical prognosis behind the bomber’s release was also found to be unsupported by science, according to a U.S. Senate report released Dec. 21. The report indicates the two Scottish doctors attending to al-Megrahi had no experience treating prostate cancer. * President Barack Obama’s administration requested back in August that al-Megrahi be sent back to prison after questions surfaced surrounding the bomber’s medical prognosis and the alleged involvement of BP in his release.

in a classroom, she said. Feminist meltdown is realizing how feminism fits within one’s life and one’s identity, Melissa said.

Depending on the definition, one could say feminism is everywhere, she said. But on the SU campus, there are few protests and a lack of a cohesive movement.

“In order to have an impact,” she said, “we must do it together.” hmbehre@syr.edu

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Crouse-Hinds expansion would enhance SU’s first impression Current students may not feel the effects of the stalled plans to update and refurbish Crouse-Hinds Hall. But the multimillion dollar addition will greatly improve Syracuse University’s first impression to thousands of prospective students and important visitors.

A member of SU’s Board of Trustees donated the money for the Couri Visitor Center and Museum, an addition to the admissions building across the street from Newhouse III. The addition’s announcement came in May 2008, but construction has been delayed time and time again, largely because a poor economy has impeded fundraising efforts for the center.

The visitor center would include vast glass walls, interactive maps and media about the history of the university. Most importantly, the center would serve as a gateway and an architectural introduction to the campus.

Crouse-Hinds Hall stands among the biggest eyesores on campus and offers no redeeming design or function. Tucked away in the corner of

editorial by the daily orange editorial board campus, the plain brick admissions building filters about 35,000 visitors a year. Though its dirty, rugged student study spaces certainly won’t make or break a student’s decision to come to SU, an attractive entryway may make a difference on the visitor’s experience and certainly on his or her first impression.

Each of the other schools can show off hallways, atriums, magnificent organs, state-of-the-art labs or other features that cater to the specific interests and tastes of its prospective students. But the stalled addition to the admissions building would provide a space to unite and highlight the university as a whole in a centralized way. Even regardless of the gadgets or art installments, simply cleaning up the stale-looking facade with a more dynamic design would greatly improve what is now one of the ugliest buildings on campus.

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SU’s educational value depends on cultivating vast marketplace of ideas

ast week, I saw how the term “diversity” has the potential to derail honest debate about academic quality.

I was an independent observer when it happened and, as such, saw these opinion pages become host to a lively and refreshing debate about changing admissions policies at Syracuse University. However, each Letter to the Editor asked a question that shouldn’t need answering: Does diversity come with the price of declining academic rigor? This should be a total nonstarter, and the allegation that someone might answer in the affirmative is offensive and distracts from a truly constructive discourse. The important questions lie in how we define SU and what the value of an education here is.

Some students come to Syracuse for the supposed prestige of a degree

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from an expensive private university.

These students must come to grips with the fact that Syracuse is not Cornell, it is not Harvard, and admissions policies don’t have much to do with it. Ivy League colleges are prestigious because of high academic standards, intellectually engaging campus cultures and long histories of elitism. Exclusivity is a symptom, not a cause, of prestige.

We clearly need other ways to think about educational value at Syracuse, but such an overarching conception of value for a university with a large liberal arts college, an art school and a variety of professional schools might not even be appropriate. Each student will want something completely different out of their time here, and the vast diversity of colleges in this university ensures the issue of educational value is one where

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too left for politics reasonable disagreement will persist and any consensus will be thin.

If the value of a Syracuse diploma is to be debated at all, we must set clear terms for what SU is and ought to be. If our institutional mandate is Scholarship in Action, great — but let’s be honest about the consequences of that vision. Draping it in rhetoric and enormous banners doesn’t help. The core vision is laudable: We ought to conceive of the university as a public good, and opening the university to all is clearly a noble

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task. If Syracuse wants to be an inclusive university with the main goal of serving students with a wide variety of goals, then it cannot also want to be Harvard. We must decide, as an institution, to commit to a vision and strive, as an institution, to honestly grasp the consequences therein.

The last point of Scholarship in Action is to “cultivate and sustain public intellectuals.” This happens when the university functions as a true marketplace of ideas, fostering a vibrant intellectual life where young people can discover the passions that will drive them to greatness. Ivy League colleges do this very well.

Admissions policy has some role in this function, but as last week’s debate has shown, “the admission enterprise is complex.” Administrators, as admissions specialists and decision-makers, have an obligation

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to explain these complexities as they arise, as Chancellor Nancy Cantor and the deans did so eloquently in these pages last week.

Students’ position on the diversity scale has much less to do with their contribution to intellectual life than their intellect. All students clearly have the potential for the intellectual curiosity that drives a university’s success. Diversity, whatever its inherent value, distracts from the real issue — all the participants in our intellectual enterprise must do everything possible to ensure our marketplace of ideas thrives. Transparent debates about policy only help this project along.

Scott Collison is a senior philosophy and physics major. His column appears occasionally, and he can be reached at smcollis@syr.edu.

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percent in 2001 to 71.6 percent in 2010.

Saleh said he “absolutely expects” the admissions rate to drop to 55 percent or lower for the next year at SU, given the university is looking to enroll a smaller class and because the number of applicants has increased.

A discussion on campus about SU’s admissions process is good and should not be ignored, said Jerry Mager, chair of USen’s Administrative Operations Committee and associate dean in the School of Education.

“It raises the question of, ‘Who do we think we are, where do we think we’re going, how do we think we’re going to get there?’ And those discussions are not always held,” Mager said.

Mager said Saleh spoke with the Ad Op committee in December on the rising admissions rate after an inquiry from committee member and history professor David Bennett. Bennett wanted to know who on campus determined SU’s admissions process and strategy. Saleh spoke with the committee about the admissions rate, diversity of student enrollment and financial support for students, Mager said.

As the university reaches out to students from a broader geographic range, it’s necessary to admit more students from areas outside the Northeast, such as California, as they are less likely to accept, Saleh told the Ad Op committee.

He also reported on a rise in students receiving Pell Grants.

Bennett, who initiated the Ad Op committee’s discussion with Saleh, brought up that meeting to further discuss it at the February USen meeting. USen members responded in a way that framed the discussion as one of diversity versus selectivity and SU’s reputation.

The issue is not about inclusivity versus selectivity, Bennett said. Rather, it’s about

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of architecture, landscape architecture, public affairs and planning, and history at the University of Minnesota; and Stephen Hanson, vice provost for global affairs at the University of Washington.

The search committee is made up of 22 members, including Maxwell faculty and staff, a graduate student, a representative from the College of Arts and Sciences, the dean’s representative and members of the Maxwell School Advisory Board.

As Steinberg is the final candidate to visit, the

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rapper Drake.

“We sold 4,200 tickets during the first week last year, and we far surpassed that in one hour,” Beyda said. “As we got updates from the Dome, we literally couldn’t believe it. We told our faculty adviser, and he thought we were kidding.”

Tickets were sellings so quickly that at about 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Ticketmaster website displayed a message stating tickets were unavailable. Carrier Dome Box Office officials called Beyda and told him they needed some time to verify the orders and make sure the seats were assigned correctly. Online sales were still unavailable as of Tuesday night, but Beyda said tickets are still available and the site would be back up Wednesday morning.

“It’s an unfortunate thing that happens sometimes, and it’s out of our control,” Beyda said.

“It’s not discouraging anyone from buying tick-

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involving the entire university community in discussion on what a higher admissions rate means for SU. Using U.S. News and World Report statistics that rank the nation’s colleges, Bennett pointed out that schools like Tulane University and George Washington University, typically grouped with SU, have risen above SU. Schools like Drexel University, typically grouped below SU, have also risen, he said. A fall in SU’s position could mean fewer students will be interested in the school, Bennett said, and fewer guidance counselors will recommend the university.

Bennett said he felt the university had changed its admissions goals of late, not to an institution that rejected selectivity but one that emphasized an effort to become more inclusive. He said he believes this is a noble goal but puts the university at risk and could affect the cache of a degree from the university. He also said he asked Saleh in their December meeting who was making the decision to move in the new direction, and Saleh said it was a small group that included himself, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina and Chancellor Nancy Cantor. Saleh said in an interview with The Daily Orange that many people across campus are involved in such discussions.

Quinn, senior vice president of public affairs, said there is a constant ongoing discussion among the chancellor, deans and enrollment management staff on broadening the applicant base geographically and socioeconomically.

The university is open to discuss the admissions rate, he said.

It is important to remember the university has admissions standards as a national, private institution, and any student who is accepted must meet those standards, Quinn said.

At the February USen meeting, Cantor spoke up and said SU has always been an inclusive institution, and having this diversity has

next step in the process is administering surveys to those who met the candidate.

The search committee will then discuss all candidates and feedback from the university community and present the final decisions to Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina. Spina will make the final decision, and the search committee hopes to have the new dean in place by July 1, said Banks, chair of the search committee.

Mitchel Wallerstein, former Maxwell dean, left SU in July 2010 to become the president of Baruch College, a City University of New York school.

Michael Wasylenko is serving as the interim dean. kronayne@syr.edu

ets, just delaying them.”

Gino Zarrillo didn’t face any delays and bought six tickets, which is the maximum, for friends back home. He was pleased with all of this year’s selections, including those for Block Party. Some of his favorite Cudi songs are “Cleveland is the Reason” and “Up Up and Away.”

“This is the best-case scenario, given the survey that came out,” said Zarrillo, a sophomore broadcast journalism major.

He said he likes Cudi’s musical style and his ability to be unique without trying to change himself.

“I think he’s hilarious, and he’s comfortable in his own image,” Zarrillo said. “As a person, he’s been through a lot, and I’m really proud he makes music the way he does.”

Zarrillo also appreciates the choice for the supporting acts, Nas and Damian Marley, and hopes Nas will perform some of his own songs as well.

“Nas is one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time, and his music is thought-provoking and

allowed for a fuller college experience. The popularity of SU has been growing, Cantor said, and SU has been able to bring in students from a wide variety of backgrounds.

A “very important goal” of the university is to grow the applicant pool, Saleh said. As more students are recruited, SU’s admissions rate will decline, Saleh said. SU would like to see an increase in the number of applicants, Saleh said, which would have the indirect effect of lowering the admissions rate.

It is important to separate the idea of being inclusive from the admissions rate, Saleh said.

There could be a lower admissions rate if SU only admitted those in the immediate area, but that is not the university’s goal, Saleh said.

Admitting more students does not mean the university is sacrificing selectivity, said Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Education. As more students are sought to attend the school, the admissions rate will go down, Biklen said.

He said he and the other deans have discussed educational diversity with Cantor since Cantor came to SU six years ago.

SU is not lowering its standards by becoming more inclusive, Biklen said. The university has long been an institution that reaches out to students, Biklen said, citing how the school reached out to women, veterans and Jewish students before other universities.

“Syracuse has a distinct role to play because it has this history of giving people a chance,” Biklen said.

It’s plausible what the university is doing with the admissions process is working, but there needs to be a better explanation of what is going on, said Jeff Stonecash, a political science professor. Stonecash said he thought talking about the admissions rate in terms of diversity was a mechanism of shutting down discussion at the last USen meeting.

“I’d like to have a real presentation on our admissions policy — why they think it’s going to work,” he said.

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said BAP’s VITA program is intended to not only help students but also to teach them. Franklin works with BAP on the tax assistance program. He said taxes can be scary, even for those with very simple returns.

“Our hope is that we can help to minimize the fear but at the same time teach our customers how to do it themselves so they can do their own next year,” Franklin said.

socially conscious,” Zarrillo said. “He has such an amazing library of songs as a solo artist that it would be a shame for him not to perform any for his loyal fans.”

Though thousands of students were up at 11 a.m. for Cudi, Mike Bradley took a nap between classes and had no intention of buying tickets.

Overall, Bradley has enjoyed UU’s selections and was excited to find out who the 2011 Block Party headliner would be. But he was disappointed when UU officials announced it was Cudi.

“I’d say they’re a year or two late in bringing Cudi — he hasn’t put out quality music since 2009,” said Bradley, a junior psychology major.

“And personally, I know friends who have seen him say he’s a terrible live performer.”

Some students wished UU would mix up the genre of acts brought to campus. Melia Robinson, a sophomore magazine journalism and information management and technology major, said the lineups for the past year have been too similar — and though that works for many students, it doesn’t work for everyone.

Without a comprehensive look at all the data, it’s difficult to understand the situation, said Kenneth Johnson, an assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies and a USen member.

Though Harvard University might have a significantly lower admissions rate, they also have a much larger and different applicant pool, Johnson said. That means comparing admissions rates between the schools is like “comparing apples to oranges,” he said.

Johnson said he wasn’t concerned with the admissions rate, as long as SU was still abiding by admissions policies of accepting academically prepared students.

“Unless they’ve thrown that all out and are just admitting anybody, I don’t see a problem,” Johnson said.

Laura Heyman, an associate professor of art, design and transmedia, said she could see both sides of the admissions argument but found it difficult to have a discussion on the admissions process without looking at all the data. Heyman said she is not a USen member.

It is also difficult to think about admissions on the broad scale given how it affects campus groups differently, Heyman said. In the art program Heyman teaches, there has not been a problem with class sizes expanding as more students accept admissions to campus. But her department is small compared to the large undergraduate courses that are likely affected, she said.

Jonathan Massey, presiding officer of USen, said in an e-mail that he has had follow-up conversations with Bennett and others about the university’s admissions strategy. But because the next Senate Agenda Committee meeting has not met since the USen meeting on Feb. 16, Massey said they have not yet discussed the next step in putting a further discussion on admissions rates on the agenda for the next USen meeting on March 23. dkmcbrid@syr.edu

BAP will offer its VITA program three more times this year: March 4, March 25 and April 1. The program will be in Flaum Grand Hall in Whitman from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on each of those dates. BAP provides the tax forms, and the program is on a first-come first-serve basis.

Rico Setyo, a senior accounting major, was one of the students who took advantage of the VITA program on Friday.

“I used it because it’s convenient, quick and free,” Setyo said. “Plus if they are doing my taxes, then I don’t have to.” ndgallag@ syr.edu

“I had no idea who Kid Cudi was,” Robinson said. “If you list off the lineups in the last year, it’s so homogenous and draws from the same music genre. I don’t think they’re catering to people with more alternative tastes.”

However, Robinson appreciates the student survey, on which Cudi had the highest demand.

Despite her wishing there were more diversity in the acts, Robinson still bought four tickets Tuesday.

“I might be disappointed, but Block Party is a fun event and has a great atmosphere,” Robinson said.

It’s impossible to please everyone, but UU’s Beyda said he feels UU officials have come pretty close.

“The only unhappy person I’ve heard of is someone who’s abroad and can’t go,” Beyda said.

“We do the surveys to appeal to the broadest number of students. So in an ideal world, if we’re doing our job right, we’re making everyone happy.” mainthia@ syr.edu

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atch out, Facebook, there’s a new social network in town.

Two MBA graduates at the University of Connecticut created Shizzlr, a social planning website that allows students to connect with close friends and make plans, said Nick Jaensch, one of the website’s creators.

“Everyone has adapted to social networks,” he said. “We wanted to answer specific problems that larger networks don’t answer.”

By creating the website, Jaensch said he and Keith Bessette, the other creator, were trying to answer the question “What’s going on tonight?” The site then evolved to allow users to see what was going on and to make plans with friends.

Jaensch and Bessette began working on the site between their first and second years

as MBA students at UConn and launched a preliminary version of the site in September 2009. The new version launched along with iPhone, BlackBerry and Android applications in January, Jaensch said. Users do not have to be college or university students to utilize the site.

The site, with about 2,800 users, utilizes Facebook and text messages to connect users and allows users to see events going on around their university. Shizzlr differentiates itself from Facebook because this site is for a user’s close group of friends, essentially the five to 20 people the user socializes with on a daily basis, Jaensch said.

“The people you’ve called or texted in the past two weeks are who you’re going to add on Shizzlr,” he said. “We still wanted to get the value of all the people you interact with on Facebook though.”

The site aggregates Facebook events hap-

pening in a user’s college or town, Jaensch said. The events could be university sponsored or could be bar nights, he said. Users can see the events and then utilize the group text messaging aspect of the site to make plans.

“We organize Facebook events and present them in a different manner so you can make plans around them,” he said.

Users can send mass text messages to a group of friends to discuss plans. The text messages are different from normal mass text messages because replies to the original message go to all the members instead of just the original sender, Jaensch said.

The two founders launched the site with money raised from friends and family, he said. Jaensch said the two began in an incubator program their last semester at UConn to further advance the preliminary website.

They won a statewide business competition in Connecticut while they were at school to receive more funds.

“We didn’t ever expect to win,” he said.

“That was when the buzz really started.”

Originally, the business plan for the founders was to target colleges and universities in the northeast, but Jaensch said the site took off and gained more users after The Associated Press published an article about it on Feb. 12.

Jaensch said he and Bessette were going to try to get back on their business plan and continue targeting schools in the northeast, but he said he was glad more people began using the site.

“People signed on everywhere after the AP article,” he said. “We had students in Texas and moms in Florida sign up.” medelane@syr.edu

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available, we’ll take hovercrafts or the Millennium Falcon. As for me, since my Subaru station wagon died in December, I’ll upgrade to a Volvo.

When we land in our respective castles, chateaus, mansions and Comstock Avenue apartments, we’ll accept only the finest products known to man. That means instead of food, we eat diamonds. Instead of toilet paper, we use silk robes. Instead of stuffed animals, we have an octagonal cage filled with sharks and killer elephants.

On weekends, we’ll go on hunt deep within the Amazon jungle-themed living room within our secret 14-square-mile clubhouse.

On weekdays, we’ll pass business hours by base-jumping from office buildings. Their

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The banter was the extent of the fans’ rivalry, Powers said. Even during the game, he felt no hostility from Georgetown students.

“It was like, ‘OK, you’re fans and we’re fans,’” he said. “And we’re all here to watch a great game, so we might as well enjoy it.”

Cheer with no fear

Though their numbers may be small, traveling SU fans are a rowdy bunch, Brown said.

“You have to be louder because you’re the underdog, you’re the minority,” he said.

“You’ve got to get your voice heard.”

But Milman warns against instigating

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bosses will watch helplessly and pray we don’t buy their company and fire them for sport.

Will the world accept our lifestyle? Of course not. Will we care? Heck no! As Charlie says, let the rest of the world “lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives” while we all ingest exorbitant amounts of mind-expanding chemicals and play Twister with half of the porn industry.

This is our destiny. We belong to a fraternity as prestigious as the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications thinks it is and as small as Jerk magazine’s readership actually is.

Winners Anonymous, no more hiding. It’s time to win.

Danny Fersh is a junior broadcast journalism major, and his columns appear every Wednesday.

Tune into the Chrissy Ost Show on Wednesday at 5 to 7 p.m. at werw.syr.edu to hear him take online talk radio to a whole new level. If that’s not enough Fersh for you, just email him at dafersh@syr.edu.

fights, recalling an uncomfortable instance when SU fans taunted Bob Huggins, West Virginia Mountaineer’s basketball coach, about his 2004 arrest for drinking under the influence.

“There were some unsavory chants regarding him needing a drink,” Milman said. “That won’t go over as well when you’re not surrounded by 30,000 fans of your team.”

Powers agrees SU fans should be respectful but not suppress their competitive spirit.

“We’re not just going to sit down all polite and take all the criticism we get.

We’re gonna stand up and cheer and get into their faces,” Powers said, a slight smile crossing his face. “That’s what you have to do — you have to represent the team you’re with.” kkim40@syr.edu

Q&A with nationally known comedian Brian Regan

By Sara Tracey FEATURE EDITOR

Comedian Brian Regan will perform at Syracuse’s Oncenter Complex on Sunday at 8 p.m. He sat down with The Daily Orange to talk about his life on tour, his experiences at Heidelberg College in Ohio and how the jokes he tells during one show may not be the same ones he reveals in another.

The Daily Orange: How do you feel about the upcoming show?

Regan: Oh, I like having any show anywhere. But I’ve been to Syracuse a few times before, and I always like coming back. I’m looking forward to it.

Are there any places to go before or after the show?

I like to go to the Syracuse Discotech and dance until the end of the night. I’m making that up. I was worried that there’s actually a place called the Syracuse Discotech, and you were thinking, “Wow, he really goes there?” You know, unfortunately, when you do a bunch of all-nighters, you don’t get to really experience the towns as much as I used to in the past.

piece of paper. It’ll just stay blank. I’ve got to go out, watch the TV that I want to watch, do things with my family I would normally do, travel the way I would normally travel, read the way I would normally read. I don’t know how or why, but some things just jump out more than other things. You go, “Hey man, that seems kind of funny.” That’s when you write it down, and you work on it from that point.

Your comedy is a different brand of comedy.

It’s not so cynical, and it doesn’t have too much swearing like some comics like to do.

Why is that?

I enjoy doing it the way I do it. It has nothing to do with being Johnny Wholesome or nothing like that. When I’m offstage with my buddies, I’m capable of saying some crass things, which would surprise a lot of people, I’m sure. On stage, I like to do my comedy the way I do it because it’s fun for me to do it that way.

Why did you major in accounting in college?

You hear a lot of times about a band that will tour three or four months to promote an album or CD. They go out on tour for longer. I think I’m actually on a voyage. It’s beyond a tour. It’s like I’m headed to another planet. It’s fun.

Well, when I was in high school, my senior year, I took an accounting class and did really well at it. When I got to college, it was then when I realized that my high school accounting teacher went so incredibly slow. She allowed all of us to really learn the stuff. When I went to college my freshman year, the pace, the acceleration of learning was cranked up into hyperspeed. If you missed a class, you might as well have cut the class.

Any voices, characters or skits you like to perform the most?

So that’s why you changed your major to theater arts?

My favorite stuff to perform is whatever is the most recent. The newer the material, the more fun it is to do. Something you’ve done a lot, someone will think, “Oh, it must feel good to know you’re going to get a laugh.” It’s actually more fun to not know if you’re going to get a laugh. I like that feeling of running out on virgin snow and hearing the little crunch as you’re running. I like that with comedy, too. I like, you know, the newer the stuff, the more exciting — especially if it gets a big laugh. (The audience) thinks, “Wow, I didn’t know that was going to happen.”

I thought this new major would be more fun.

One of the first classes I took was a speech class.

And I tried to make them funny so I wouldn’t drive myself crazy with boredom. The first few times that I made my class laugh with my speeches, something happened inside of me. I thought, “Wow, that was fun.” I also thought, “I don’t remember feeling like that when I walked from my accounting class!”

How would you describe the touring life?

Is there a particular way you get new ideas?

The way I do it is I try to live my life the way I would normally live my life. I don’t sit down and try to create comedy because it just doesn’t work that way for me. I’m not good with a blank

Is there anything else you’d like to add that I didn’t ask about?

Um, I think you covered it. I’ll plug a couple things. I have a new CD out called “Brian Regan all by myself,” which is available on my Web page.

I also have the Twitter thing. I just got up to 25,000 followers, which I’m pretty proud of. The Twitter name is brianregancomic, all one word. smtracey@syr.edu

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It’s hard being a winner in a world full of losers DANNY FERSH

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ook, people. All I do every day is wake up on a pile of awesome, eat victory sandwiches, drink greatness and sleep in a Jacuzzi full of cash. Is that so wrong?

Granted, the simpleminded masses can’t be expected to understand how I manage to exude elegant manliness with every power-filled stride I take in my loafers made of panda bear fur, but they should understand by now that my magnificence must be celebrated, not persecuted.

Sadly in the past, men like me were forced to hide our brilliance under a mask of mediocrity to shield lesser people from what they can’t comprehend. However, our shackles of secrecy were thrown aside last week when one of our brethren decided to end the silence and show the world what it means to be a winner.

Of course, I mean Charlie Sheen.

Through a series of television and radio interviews, the legendary actor with a penchant for porn stars and cocaine revealed that what you worthless peons consider problems, like “drug addiction,” “manic depression” and “being a total whackjob,” he calls “perfect and bitchin’ and just delivering the goods at every frickin’ turn.”

Charlie is one of us. He has no flaws, no problems and no addictions, except for winning, which is something he’ll never quit. Thanks to his courageous declarations of greatness to the American public, the rest of us members of Winners Anonymous no longer need to conceal who we are.

Brothers, we finally have our spokesman. It’s time for us to follow his lead and take charge of a world that rightfully belongs to us.

First, we must assemble. That means you, Snoop Dogg, Nicolas Cage, Ron Artest, John Stamos, Bob Saget, Don Draper, Pee-wee Herman, Bruce Wayne, Coolio and Mick Jagger. Justin Bieber, you can come, too.

We’ve got to unite as one to show the masses what separates us from everyone else. No more acquiescing to ridiculous societal standards that limit our potential to bring excessiveness to the extreme or, as Charlie puts it, “pretending like my life isn’t just perfect and winning every second.”

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By Kathleen Kim ASST. FEATURE EDITOR

f you’re a die-hard Syracuse University sports fan, you try not to miss a game. You’re probably a season ticketholder — maybe you’ve camped out at “Boeheimberg” for a night or two.

Luckily, attending home games require minimal effort: Just stroll over to the Carrier Dome and merge with the sea of orange that floods its silver bleachers.

But traveling 100-plus miles away and stepping onto another team’s turf? That’s a whole new ball game.

Cue the questions: How can you get there? Where do you sleep? How much money should you bring? Take it easy — we’ve got you covered. Read on for tips from four dedicated fans who mastered the art of tailing a team and made some memories along the way.

BEFORE YOU GO Plan way ahead

Avoid scrambling at the last minute, said Louis Milman, a senior writing and rhetoric major and events officer on the executive board of Otto’s Army. Milman has traveled to 10 away games, and he plans months in advance for major games. For the 2010 SU vs. Rutgers’ game in November, he and his friends started organizing their trip in midSeptember.

Colin Powers, a junior marketing and international relations major who has gone to three away games, agrees students should form a solid plan right away.

“Do it sooner, rather than later, for sure,” he said. “You never know what’s going to happen, and you don’t want to be stuck with no tickets.”

Browse blogs

Check out blogs run by SU fans for current news and inside information on upcoming games, Milman suggests. He follows SU alumnus Sean Keeley’s “Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician” blog.

Brian Schantz, a junior economics and history major, read Keeley’s detailed post on how Georgetown University restricted selling tickets to SU fans for the Feb. 26 game. He acted quickly.

“I texted a bunch of my friends and said I needed a commitment within three days so we could buy the tickets before they sold out,” said Schantz, who has attended two

away games. He and his friends collectively made the necessary $25 donation and each person paid $30 for the tickets, nabbing seats for the game.

Choose your ride

Every year, the Otto’s Army executive board arranges bus trips to several games. Prices for the ride and tickets range from $30 to $40. The board sends e-mails with the trip’s itinerary to the Otto’s Army listserv about one to two weeks before the game.

On one of those trips, Schantz headed to 2010’s SU vs. University of North Carolina game at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He remembers wandering through Times Square.

“We walked down the streets wearing orange, and people came up to us and said, ‘Go Orange!’” he said. “It was really cool.”

Though the bus option may be cheap, traveling on your own can give you more freedom, Schantz said. He and four friends left for Washington, D.C., last Friday, taking turns driving and even stopping at southern fast food chain Chick-fil-A. “It was so worth it,” Schantz said.

Money, money, money For one-day trips, Milman suggests taking about $30 for transportation and a snack at the stadium’s concession stand.

For multiple-day driving trips, set aside money for gas and food at rest stops, said Kevin Brown, a senior broadcast journalism major who has been to 12 away games. He recommends taking $100 to $150 for three days.

WHEN YOU GET THERE Sweet slumber

If you’re planning to stay at a hotel, read the reviews, Brown said. For the 2010 Legends Classic games in Atlantic City, he booked cheap rooms at the Howard Johnson — big mistake.

“The Internet didn’t work, the TV was crap, the bathroom was not very clean — and the room key didn’t work,” Brown said, shaking his head. “It was just awful.”

To minimize costs, Schantz suggests crashing at a friend’s dorm. “I know people at most Big East schools, so I can stay with them,” he said.

Tour and explore

Brown said he always takes photos and eats at local restaurants in each city he visits.

“If you’re going somewhere, you might as well soak it up as much as you can,” he said.

When Schantz, Powers and their three friends arrived in Washington, D.C., they toured the federal triangle, including the new World War II memorial, which none of them had seen before.

Getting around town

No car? No problem. Most cities are pedestrian-friendly, and you can ride buses and Metro trains.

Keep in mind the city, especially around the stadium, will teem with swarms of opposing fans. After SU defeated Georgetown, Schantz, Powers and their three friends rode a Metro train car packed with disappointed Georgetown fans.

“They just had the saddest looks on their faces,” Schantz said, laughing. “It was pretty satisfying to see.”

A seated Georgetown student glared at them until the train came to her stop.

“Syracuse sucks,” she blurted out in a drunken slur, stepping out.

“Georgetown sucks more,” Schantz replied.

Another Georgetown student joined in.

“Orange is just a disgusting color anyway,” she said.

“You guys are wearing gray. At least we stand out — you’re just in a sea of boringness,” Powers said.

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e’re all guilty of losing focus in class. When I’m in front of my laptop, spaced out and not paying attention to the lecture going on in front of me, I wander toward YouTube and its VEVO page, home to thousands of music videos visitors can watch for free. Now that extensive database can go wherever you go with the VEVO application for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. One of the best features of VEVO comes up when the app opens. On the home screen, VEVO highlights some of the newest content it has. Some are videos of newly released singles, such as the premiere of the new song “I Need a Doctor” by Jay-Z and Eminem. Other highlighted videos are exclusives, only available to VEVO visitors. Right now, users can view exclusive performances by Pitbull.

Looking for some of the more popular videos is easily done with VEVO. Under the “Videos” tab, users can view a listing of the videos that have had the most views. From Britney Spears to Diddy Dirty Money to Shakira, all the popular videos are listed on one screen. Tapping on the picture of the video automatically plays it. Also under the “Videos” tab, the “Premieres” listing posts the newest content.

As for viewing the video itself, the quality is top-notch. As long as you have at least a Wi-Fi connection, the videos play crystal clear and the sound is stereo quality. VEVO videos on both the YouTube page and its website are clear and in high definition.

Despite the tiny screen that comes with an iPod, VEVO does an excellent job of creating a great video experience.

The video experience gets even better while watching. Tapping the content while it plays brings up a series of options that enhance the experience even further. The “Info” tab lists the artist, genre, subgenre, producer and record label. Tapping the “Buy” tab takes the user directly to the iTunes Music Store. If the store has the song or video available for purchase, it’ll take the user directly there.

Then there’s the ability to use social media. The “Share” tab allows the user to connect straight to Facebook and Twitter and tell others about what he or she is watching.

The options don’t end there. The “Search” feature is easily the best part of VEVO. Tapping on the magnifying glass icon in the corner in any menu brings up the iPod’s on-screen keyboard. Type in an artist and you’ll get any video VEVO has available for that artist right on the screen. For example, Eminem has been making classic music videos for more than

a decade. Typing in his name brings up 39 videos, ranging all the way from “My Name Is” to his most recent hits, including “Not Afraid” and “No Love.”

VEVO brings an amazing amount of content to the user’s fingertips. There are music videos, behind-the-scenes features and performances from artists all over the music scene. There’s enough to satisfy any music fan from any genre. And while all those features make the app attractive to download, the best part is the price because there isn’t one.

Thousands of free videos from all sorts of artists make VEVO a great download. nerivera@syr.edu

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No clear frontrunner emerges in loaded Player of Year race

By Rachel Marcus Asst. Copy Editor

court hathaway | staff photographer austin freeman of Georgetown is one of many players in the Big East contending for the conference’s Player of the Year award. Syracuse’s Wes Johnson won it last year.

When Wes Johnson was named Big East Player of the Year last season, it was a fairly obvious choice to Villanova head coach Jay Wright.

Wright thought the only other challenger was the Wildcats’ Scottie Reynolds.

This year, though, Wright can’t seem to come to the same easy consensus.

“It definitely is a more wide open race than last year,” Wright said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 24. “Last year, everyone had to choose between those two.”

The distinct possibility of 11 Big East teams making the NCAA Tournament means each team has worthy players. Even teams at the bottom of the conference standings have players who will challenge for the award. There is no clear-cut favorite.

Georgetown’s Austin Freeman was voted the Big East preseason Player of the Year, but he started off the season slow. That allowed Connecticut’s Kemba Walker to step up. For a while, he appeared to be the favorite.

“The early on favorite was Kemba Walker for sure, and lately it’s really tightened up,” Stan Heath said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 24.

Multiple players have risen to challenge Walker lately. During St. John’s rise from obscurity to No. 15 in the Associated Press poll, senior Dwight Hardy has scored at will, including his 34-point game last Saturday at Villanova.

But in the Big East, so many names score at will, such as Providence’s Marshon Brooks, Notre Dame’s Ben Hansbrough and Georgetown’s Freeman.

And the unique characteristic about the Big East is that almost every team has more than one player they rely on, Wright said. That makes the decision even more challenging for coaches.

“I think the strength of the Big East this year is that every team has a great leader, but they’re not one-man teams,” Wright said. “You can go through all the guys: Notre Dame, Georgetown. Pitt’s the best team, and you have to decide between the two guards (Ashton Gibbs and Brad Wanamaker).

Both of them are equally as valuable. I have no clue right now.”

Wright’s view seems to be the general consensus among his fellow Big East coaches. The number of players making noise in the league represents the number of teams fighting for position in the NCAA Tournament.

And it all originates from Freeman, the preseason pick. He still has a shot to win it after resurfacing from a slow start to the season. His name comes up among countless conference coaches. He’s not always first, but he finds a way to

get his name out there.

Louisville head coach Rick Pitino referenced Hardy and Walker before going back to Georgetown’s guard.

“There’s probably a few other guys like Freeman that you can throw in the mix as well,” Pitino said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 24. “I’d have to give that some thought.”

Players like Freeman, Hardy and Walker get more attention because they play for top teams in the Big East. Although not a necessity, both Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey and Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said players from winning teams are usually favored.

“My criteria is a guy who really is helping a team to win the league at this point,” Brey said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 24. “I’ve always really felt it should come from somebody that’s really chasing (a title).”

If there is one aspect all the coaches agree on, it’s that they don’t know who will surface from the depths and actually win the award.

It won’t be Johnson or Reynolds. They’re both gone.

Heath and Rutgers head coach Mike Rice agreed it is a wait-and-see process.

“I’m going to hold my hand still and wait another week and a half to see how it ends up,” Rice said in the teleconference. “I haven’t looked at the numbers and all the things that go in, but that’s going to be an interesting decision because there are so many deserving individuals.”

Player to watch Marshon Brooks Guard Providence

Brooks set the Big East single-game scoring record by putting in 52 points in a 94-93 loss to then-No. 9 Notre Dame last week. The 52 points were the most this season by a Division I player. Brooks also became the first player to record 20 made field goals against a Division I opponent since 1997.

Brooks followed up his monster game with a rather modest 17-point outing in an 86-62 loss at Marquette. But for the week he averaged 34.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists.

Brooks has been the lone bright spot on a Friars team that has lost six in a row and seven of eight. For the season, he is averaging 25.1 points per game on 49.4 percent shooting from the field.

He’ll try to help Providence finish out its regular season on a high note as it takes on No. 11 Louisville on Wednesday and Rutgers on Saturday.

Game to watch No. 8 Notre Dame at No. 16 Connecticut Saturday, 2 p.m., ESPN

The first time these two teams squared off on Jan. 4 in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame captured a 73-70 victory to slow down a surging Huskies team.

The Irish did so by stopping Kemba Walker.

Ben Hansbrough guarded Walker and held him to just 19 points, snapping his streak of 11 consecutive games with at least 20 points.

Meanwhile, Hansbrough scored 21 points to pace Notre Dame.

This time in Connecticut, conference seeding will be on the line. Notre Dame has already clinched a double-bye as one of the top-four teams in the conference. Connecticut currently stands at eighth in the Big East, tied record-wise with three other teams. The Huskies will look to separate from the middle of the pack. rnmarcus@syr.edu

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Syracuse not content with 2 losses in 1st half of season

By Stephen Bailey Staff Writer

Luke Jensen said his players work harder than any other team in the country, regardless of level. He makes them work for three hours at a time and expects results.

“There isn’t a group of tennis players on the men’s side or the women’s side in any facet of this game, from the juniors (to) college (to the) pros, that works harder,” Jensen said. “Honestly, for three straight hours when they’re out here (practicing), they’re not allowed to sit down, and they don’t get many water breaks.”

At the halfway point of the season, his team sits 8-2 overall and 4-0 in the conference. SU is currently riding an 18-game Big East regularseason winning streak, as well as a streak of 19 straight home wins.

But for a team whose sights are set on winning the Big East tournament, Jensen and his players know they still need to get better.

Especially considering the team dropped only two regular-season matches last season and was still unable to get past the second round of the Big East tournament — something the team would like to change this time around.

Freshman Maddie Kobelt wasn’t around for that early exit from postseason play a year ago, but she knows the importance of winning the conference championship. With that trophy, the team will earn a berth into the NCAA tournament.

“It’s definitely important and good for us to come out and show the rest of the teams in the Big East that this is our record against other Big East teams,” Kobelt said. “This is how we’ve competed, we’re here and we mean business.”

So far, SU has bullied its four in-conference opponents with both losses coming in nonconference matches. The Orange defeated Cincin-

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ball to the net, which led to missed opportunities. Those rushed shots cost Syracuse possessions, giving Army opportunities to score and get back within reach.

Adding even more frustration for the Orange was that it placed emphasis on taking good shots leading up to the game. But when Syracuse tried to apply that preparation in the game, it didn’t always do so successfully.

“They have a good goaltender, so we have to pick the right shots,” attack Stephen Keogh said in the days leading up to the game. “And bury some early.”

The Orange is heading into a portion of its schedule in which it will face teams that capitalize on those mistakes more effectively than the Black Knights did. When the game was over, Orange goaltender John Galloway said there was no relief the Orange could move on from the much-anticipated rematch with the Black Knights.

Instead, he only saw reason to study the game tape even more to correct what went wrong.

“I would say that we need to look at this film and see what we did defensively wrong,” Galloway said. “We’re way past what happened last year, we need to focus on the mistakes that we

nati and Georgetown and dropped just three of 14 matches combined against those teams.

And against Seton Hall and West Virginia, Syracuse registered shutouts.

Those teams, however, aren’t the ones Jensen expects to compete with in the late rounds of the conference tournament. The Notre Dames of the Big East are much more of a concern for the fifth-year coach.

“The reality is (Notre Dame) is the favorite,” Jensen said. “They have higher-ranked players; they have higher-ranked junior players. But really when you come onto the court for competition, that doesn’t count. They don’t get extra points unless you give it to them.

“When we come into the Big East tournament against anyone, we face them with a chip on our shoulder — that we’ve got to prove something.”

But before the team gets to the Big East tournament, it has a grueling regular-season schedule to complete. Syracuse will take on teams such as Southern California, San Diego State and William & Mary to test the Orange late in the regular season. USC is currently ranked No. 17 in the nation, while SDSU and W&M are 62nd and 75th, respectively.

Kobelt is especially looking forward to facing off against teams outside the Northeast region. Especially those from the West Coast.

“We’re really excited for that,” Kobelt said. “(We’re) ready to go out and show them what us East Coast girls got.”

Though they may not have the 10-0 record they wanted at this point in the season, the “East Coast girls” bring a competitive edge and an unmatched work ethic to the courts every day. It is a work ethic that stems from their coach.

But work ethic alone doesn’t yield results.

The team might be the hardest working in the

made today and really fix those.”

Galloway was talking about the defense, but Desko said that wasn’t what let Army get as close as it did. Instead, he said the mistakes by the offense gave the Black Knights so many opportunities to score.

Going into the Orange’s third game of the season against No. 2 Virginia on Friday, that offense remains a question mark. Especially when it comes to the second midfield line, which struggled to find the back of the net in both wins so far. Desko is still trying to find the right combination, and at times he moved JoJo Marasco from attack to midfield to try and create stronger matchups.

When all is said and done, it comes back to minimizing the amount of errors the offense makes.

“It’s still a work in progress, and we’re going to try and give them as many opportunities as possible,” Desko said. “Whoever gets in and doesn’t make mistakes and produces on top of it will earn playing time.”

Eliminating mistakes seems to be a theme for Syracuse. Right now, mistake-free play is at a premium. There’s little question about what Syracuse focused on when it sat down to watch that tape.

“There’s always things we can work on,” Galloway said. “And that’s what we’re going to do going into the short week.” cjiseman@syr.edu

ashli truchon | staff photographer luke jensen and Syracuse are 8-2 on the young season but have schedule challenges ahead of them, including an eight-game road trip against ranked teams. nation, as Jensen said, but that didn’t prevent SU from dropping two matches in the first half.

Nonetheless, Jensen knows this determination is what makes his team so special. He made it clear this year’s team is the most highly motivated squad he’s ever coached.

With all this said, there can be no letup for Jensen and his squad. Other elite teams in the nation are out there training every day, preparing for their respective conference

tournaments, just like Syracuse is.

That means the Orange needs to put those early-season losses behind it and continue to make strides under Jensen’s tutelage.

“I think last year we had a much better start to last season than we did (this year),” junior Emily Harman said. “We just really have to step it up in those (close) matches and look more like a veteran team.” sebail01@ syr.edu

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SU runners learn from local weather in poor race conditions

By David Propper Staff Writer

Steve Weeks remembers how just this past year, at the Big East championship in Jamesville, N.Y., the conditions were dreadful for most teams. But not for the Syracuse track team, which deals with awful weather on a consistent basis in training.

Weeks said other Northeast teams at the meet had no idea how to handle the wet conditions, almost looking panicked and losing focus because of the weather and the effect it had on the course.

For SU, though, it was just another day of running in miserable weather.

“It was snowy and wet and muddy,” the senior Weeks said. “Just being able to train in this all the time is a huge advantage. You get on a dry course, and it makes it seem like you’re running really easy.”

Running in snow, sleet and subzero temperatures makes SU one of the most battle-tested teams in the Big East. And it also makes it better.

“It makes it tougher, but in the long run, it’s

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on a hard foul. And Rick Jackson sealed the win with a pair to provide the Orange’s final margin of victory, banking in the latter.

“I was surprised,” said Carl Arrigale, Jackson’s high school coach at Neumann-Goretti (Pa.), who was at the game. “He’s been shooting 1-of-2 for about eight years now.”

The late-game clutch shooting from the line has become a developing trend that has helped

an advantage, just because it makes us tougher,” Weeks said.

Senior Cassie White didn’t travel with the team when it ran in two meets in Kenosha, Wis., and Boston in the 2009 season. But White said she remembers her teammates showing her pictures of the rain-soaked conditions after they returned from the meet. The courses were less than manageable for most teams. But Syracuse isn’t most teams.

White said SU was able to handle the course well because the team knows how to run in any temperature and weather.

This winter, 151 inches of snow have fallen on Syracuse, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures average 21.7 degrees.

Although the team acknowledges the consistent cold and precipitation helps them in the long run, the weather does sometimes get in the way of the team’s near-daily outdoor preparation.

White has seen her share of slip-and-slides. So has distance runner Pat Dupont.

“When we get going fast outside sometimes,

we’ll get on some trails that probably aren’t ready to be run yet, but we’re excited, so we go anyway,” Dupont said. “There are some falls, and stuff happens.”

Overall, the team just has to be more cautious on the trails and streets it runs down. When it gets unbearably cold, that’s when SU head coach Chris Fox pulls them inside. That’s usually when the temperatures dip below zero.

Fox agrees with most of the members of his team that the weather toughens Syracuse. But he also takes the approach that it may hinder the Orange’s preparation.

“It’d be great if it was 75 degrees and sunny all the time, but it doesn’t hurt us,” Fox said.

“It slows us down a little bit. It puts us maybe a couple weeks behind schools that are in great weather, but it all equals out by May and June, which is important to us.

“It has no effect whatsoever during cross country.”

The bleak weather also has no effect on recruits choosing to race at SU.

When Dupont shows recruits around during their visits, it’s always a topic he brings up. He lets them know part of the year can be demanding to run in. Most of the time, prospective runners — even those who live on the West Coast or in the South — brush it off as a nonfactor.

For those recruits who do consider it to be a factor, Dupont said SU probably isn’t the right place for them.

“If anybody is not going to come here because of the snow, we don’t really want them on our team,” he said.

Fox said the team signed one of the top runners from San Diego a few weeks ago. He said if a San Diego native is willing to run in Syracuse, it’s more about the allure of the SU program and not the threat of frostbite.

“If you can train here in the winter, you’re tough,” Fox said. “And we like tough runners.

We like our kids to be tough. We like our kids to be kind of not spoiled. Being here in February, you’re not being spoiled.”

foster SU’s four-game winning streak heading into its final regular-season game against DePaul on Saturday (4 p.m., Big East Network).

Against Rutgers, Syracuse made 34 of its 47 attempts from the line, but the biggest ones came in the form of Jackson’s tying free throw that sent the game to overtime and the nine made in the overtime session.

And in Syracuse’s 58-51 win over Georgetown on Saturday, free throws closed the game out as SU made stops on the defensive end. No one was more important to that stretch than Brandon Triche, who made six free throws in the last four

minutes — and four in the final 23 seconds. Triche stepped up from the line despite a 1-for-7 shooting night overall.

“I just try to be relaxed,” Triche said in the SU locker room after the win. “I’m usually a cool, calm guy. So I just try to be relaxed and not be shaky. I know if I make the first one, the second one’s going to go in.”

At one practice last week, Triche did just that.

He made both, probably expected considering his streak of 27 consecutive made free throws in games. It was Jackson, the notorious “one out of two” free-throw shooter, who was the first to send

his team running.

There was a collective sigh, some sprinting, some jogging and some backpedaling up and down the court. But there hasn’t been much sighing or similar emotion in games recently. And to Triche, it all comes back to those 10 minutes in practice.

“I try to treat every free throw like it’s in the game,” Triche said. “Like you need them. Free throws are the easy points that can help the team out.”

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Clutch performance at free-throw line helps SU close out games late

By Brett LoGiurato

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or as long as Jim Boeheim can remember, each Syracuse practice has ended the same way.

Free throws. In Manley Field House, the Carrier Dome or the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, the players have lined up in a row on the baseline while one player shoots.

Two shots. You make one, and there’s no running. You miss one, and the sprint to the other end of the court and back begins.

“We’ve probably been doing that for the last 20 years,” SU head coach Boeheim said.

At least part of the reason Boeheim implemented the free-throw shooting at the end of a long hour and a half practice is the effect it seems to have on the Orange’s recent performance from the line late in games.

Statistically, Syracuse is the worst free-throw shooting team in the Big East at just 65.7 percent. But in the last five minutes and overtime of games this season, the Orange is shooting a cool 70 percent from the line.

“The big key,” Boeheim said, “is we’ve made key foul shots all year long.”

That’s almost a full 10 percentage points behind Villanova, who leads the conference at 75.6 percent. But to Boeheim, free-throw statistics are misleading.

“The thing that’s deceptive about free-throw shooting is that it’s maybe five or six total foul shots that separate you from seventh or eighth place,” Boeheim said. “It’s such a small percentage. Over 17 games, that’s maybe five foul shots.”

And the prime example Boeheim points at to support his theory is what happened in one game: Syracuse’s 69-64 win over Villanova on Feb. 21.

The Wildcats, the aforementioned best shooting team from the line in the Big East, went just 17-of-27 from the line. Guard Corey Stokes, who is sixth in the nation shooting 90.6 percent on the season, made five of his eight attempts on the night.

Meanwhile, SU shot 13-of-17 from the line on the night. And when it mattered most, the Orange calmly sank its shots.

“When we’ve had to make free throws, we’ve made them,” Boeheim said. “We’ve made very clutch free throws. That’s the key, really, I think.

“Villanova leads the league in freethrow shooting. They missed two key free throws. And we made two key free throws.”

Trailing by one and three late, Villanova’s James Bell missed three consecutive free throws. On the other end, his team up 65-64, Dion Waiters sunk two after being knocked to the ground

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kirsten celo | photo editor rick jackson and SU are shooting 70 percent from the free-throw line in the final five minutes and overtime of the Orange’s games this season. Guard Brandon Triche has made 27 straight free throws.

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SU looks to fix offensive mistakes

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

aaron katchen | staff photographer joel white and Syracuse have been plagued by mistakes despite the team’s 2-0 record on the season. The Orange will look to correct those miscues when it takes on No. 2 Virginia on Friday at home.

When John Desko sat his team down to watch what it did wrong in its past game against Army, the Syracuse men’s lacrosse head coach let the tape do most of the talking.

“I mean you could talk about it, but when they visually can see it on game tape, I think we’re going to learn from that,” Desko said.

In each of the Orange’s two wins to start the season, mistakes on the field translated to costly turnovers and missed opportunities. Against

Army, then ranked No. 17 and not as tough a challenge as some of SU’s other opponents will pose, Syracuse blew a seven-goal deficit and let Army get within one. The Orange pulled out the win, but those mistakes could compromise Syracuse’s run to a third championship in four years.

How to go about fixing those mistakes is one of the question marks of this Syracuse team.

That’s why a trip to the film room is in order. Desko said he wants to show his team what it needs to do to better execute the game plan. Against

the Black Knights, when the Orange needed to take high-percentage shots against goaltender Tom Palesky, it failed to do so. That led to a nearly 26-minute scoring drought in the third and fourth quarters.

“We had such a healthy lead, of course we needed more points, but we needed to work on high-percentage shots against a good goaltender,” Desko said. “We’re going to work on that, and we’re going to get better at it.”

Instead of taking those high-percentage shots, Syracuse rushed the

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